Article of wire furniture.



PATENTJEED JULY l, 1905.]

L. F. GMSWULD.

ARTICLE OF WIRE FURNITURE-'5.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 2'], 190 3,.

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Application iilcd May 27, 1904. Serial No. 210,064.

To u/ZZ whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, LEWIS F. Gmswom), a citizen of the United States, residing at Meriden, county of New Haven, State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful A1 ticle o1" Wire Furniture, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the mamrlt'actnre of wire tl tn'nituresuch as chairs, stools, tables, &c.and has for its object to prod ucc articles of lmniture 01'' this class which shall be so strongly braced and put together as to enable them to withstand the hardest kind of hard usage in ordinary service without injury and which shall, furthermore, be so puttogether as to reduce the cost of construction to the minimum, owing to the fact that the fewest possible number of parts are used. The stock so disposed as to give the greatest possible strength in resisting all kinds of strain, and the method of assembling the parts and securing them together is simplified in every way possible.

\Vith these and other objects in view I have devised the simple and novel article of wire furniture which I will now describe, refer- .ring to the accompanying drawings, :lorming a part of this specification, and using reference characters to indicate the several parts.

Figure 1 is an elevation of a wire stool cmbodying the principle of my invention; Fig. 2, a detail sectional view on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view of the top and the angle-ring, showing the manner in which the top and the legs are secured to the angle-ring.

A denotes the top or seat, B the angle-ring, and (l the legs. The top or seat is ordinarily made of wood and is secured to the anglering by screws 10, (see dotted lines, Fig. 3,) which extend upward through the base 01" the angle-ring, which is specifically indicated by 11, and into the wood of the top or seat. The flange of the angle-ring is indicated by 12 and incloscs the top or seat closely, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 3. The legs are formed from blanks of wire. Each leg comprises a foot 13, which consists of a loop formed slightly at one side of the mid-length oi a blank cut to the required length to form a leg. The loop 01 wire, which I have termed the foot, is bent outward to lie parallel with the top or seat and to rest upon the floor. Above the foot the strands of the blank are twisted tightly, as. at 14:, thereby locking the strands firmly together. Above the twist one strand, which i: have specifically indicated by 15, extends straight upward. The other strand, which have specifically indicated by it), is bent inward and upward. obliquely to a ointdirectly beneath the center of the top or seat and up proximately midway between the feet and the top.

In the present instance .l have illustrated a :lour-legged stool as an en'ibodiment ol. the in vention. It should be understood, however, that the invention is by no means limited to the special style or design of the article of furniture illustrated.

The four strands 16 of the four legs converge and contact with each other at the extreme oi the inward bend, as at 17, (see Fig. 2,) and are lirmlylocked together by molding about them at their point of contact a slug of metal, whichl have indicated by 18. This slug of metal may be molded to spherical form, as indicated in the drawings, or to any other desired ornamental Form. Above the contactpoin s the strands 1b diverge and extend outward again, and. each strand 16 contacts again with its correspol'iding strand 15, the two strands l5 and 16 of each leg being locked together at the point of contact by a slug 19 of metal, which is molded about them. Above slug 19 the two strands extend upward par allel with each other, pass through holes to receive them in the angle-ring, and are headed down upon the upper side of the base of the angle-ring, as at 20.

Having thus described my invention, I claim.---

An article of wire furniture comprising a top, an angle-ring to which said top is secured, legs, each comprising a foot formed from a loop 01. wire at one side ol. the mid-length of molded metal locking the abutting parallel strands of each leg together.

In testimony whereof I 'afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses LEWIS F. GRISWOLD. WVitnesses:

O. W. GAINES, C. G. PowERs. 

